A non-governmental organisation (NGO) that aims at improving access to education among deprived children in Ghana has been launched.
Kingdom Life Style Mission seeks to partner with corporate institutions, media house and churches to give pupils especially, but also secondary level students, the opportunity of relearning subjects they are thought in class through supplementary classes on weekends.
Led by Pastor Alex Gyasi, founder of Highway of Holiness Church in the U.K, Kingdom Lifestyle Mission seeks to go beyond just assisting the educational needs of the youth, but also provide shelter and support to the homeless children in Ghana.
Already, Kingdom Lifestyle Mission has been holding Saturday classes for pupils at Madina free of charge with support from volunteers from tertiary institutions since 2012.
Currently, more than 200 children from Madina and its environs have benefitted from the assistance of Kingdom Lifestyle Mission.
At the launch of the NGO at the British Council in Accra on Thursday April 3, Mr Alex Gyasi, CEO of Kingdom Lifestyle Mission underscored the need for corporate bodies to actively take part in efforts to reduce the number of street children in the country.
Having come from a poor home himself, Mr Gyasi said the mission “is about everyone pulling resources together to give our children a higher standard of education, and a better future. We have to close the gap between poor education and a higher standard of education.”
Kingdom Lifestyle Mission also aims at imbibing biblical teachings into beneficiary pupils and students at its supplementary schools and also motivating them through appearances of notable persons in society.
Rev Dr Lawrence Tetteh, who chaired the event, lauded the initiative and reiterated the need for churches and corporate bodies to assist government agencies to support the less privileged in society.
Currently, Kingdom Lifestyle Mission gets funding from the UK-based Highway of Holiness Church.
But Mr Gyasi believes in order to realise the vision of the mission — which includes transforming the Ghanaian society through education and provision of care for children from poor homes — support in cash and kind from individuals and institutions would be inevitable.
